I think they're the blue LED Christmas lights, or maybe they're something else, but either way they look like this:

or this:

Or this:

They're those blue light that ares starting to pop up everywhere that you can't quite get your eyes to focus on, so you end up staring at them all bug-eyed while their vibrating blue light permeates your optical nerve to induce immediate migrane nausea. I am completely convinced that these things can induce epilepsy without even blinking.

I haven't looked this year, but last year they put these lights on the trees on either side of the thoroughfare at Gateway. I literally (and by literally, I do actually mean literally) nearly crashed into the back of a mall security car while trying to focus my vision between the fog of reverberating blue before my eyes.

I know they make those LED lights in other colors, but there's something about the blue that gets my cornea wriggling.

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Well they have them along W. Temple at least. I don't think they even use the LEDs (which are supposed to be more energy efficient, though how much energy can a little light bulb really use - what are we conserving!), so there is no excuse for such a monstrosity. Don't let Jen fool you, she lLOVES them!